[Fwd: Re: book: wittgenstein's poker]

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Oct 30 14:25:50 PST 2001



> ("That whereof we cannot speak, we
> must remain silent"; it's beautiful in German: Wovon man nicht schrechen
> kann, darueber muss man schweigen.")

In one of the odder coincidences I've encountered in a while, my former German instructor quoted this in class an hour after I'd read it in my mailbox. He happened to be subbing for my current GSI. Odd: I never thought an analytic philosopher would be known for the beauty of his prose.

-- Luke



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